tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32255069.post8055735239362413834..comments2023-06-16T15:35:36.718+03:00Comments on Jeha's Nail - مسمار جحا: Georgia on my MindJehahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08714767132428450071noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32255069.post-68049227689040305062008-08-29T21:49:00.000+03:002008-08-29T21:49:00.000+03:00There is much hyperbole and little fact/background...<EM>There is much hyperbole and little fact/background in teh news nowadays. The media is not really aware that , in its invasion of Georgia, the Kremlin has taught the White House a masterly lesson in geography, teaching them Yankees not to venture too far into mother Russia’s “Near Abroad”. You would think the State Department’s Kremlinologist-en-chef would know better, but recall that she (and most others) misread (to put it mildly) the collapse of the Soviet Union, in spite of much evidence… How about putting some real Russia experts on the payroll?</EM><BR/><BR/>I am wondering who is next. Many people bet on Ukraine. The Baltic sites may be also in a risk group. Latvia in particular. I remember reading in the New York Times that Russians there are getting restless and they should be close to 40% of the population. If Russian nationalists start a mess there I won't be surprised if the Russian army pays a visit.Nobodyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09952955021226297401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32255069.post-55353103388254282402008-08-27T13:50:00.000+03:002008-08-27T13:50:00.000+03:00Thank you for pointing out the obvious , Disconnec...Thank you for pointing out the obvious , <B>Disconnect</B>; all Lebanese citizens are an integral part of Lebanon. <B>LaPalisse</B> would not have put it better. <BR/><BR/>And that has nothing to do with this post, or any other post of this blog. Maybe you should learn to read.<BR/><BR/>So please, be factual. Or go away.Jehahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08714767132428450071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32255069.post-26361783451760941922008-08-27T10:44:00.000+03:002008-08-27T10:44:00.000+03:00You people are so disconnected from reality its fu...You people are so disconnected from reality its funny. Has any person who is associated with this blog even visited Lebanon in the past 5 years?<BR/><BR/>HA is not a weird people living alone is some enclave in Lebanon. They are part of the Shia community which always have been a big part of the capital and ever so growing. Ain el Mreisseh (where I am from) has been a strongly Shia area for the past 60 years.<BR/>Raouche is becoming more and more mixed. <BR/>The Shia are an integral part of Lebanon and here to stay.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32255069.post-40718984053223036442008-08-26T23:54:00.000+03:002008-08-26T23:54:00.000+03:00Contrary to what some have said the similarities b...Contrary to what some have said the similarities between the Georgian current problem and what has been going on in Lebanon for a few years is more than skin deep.<BR/><BR/>Georgia is a country populated by 4.5 million people, just like Lebanon. South Ossetia has less than 100,00 people and Abkhazia just about 200,000 people i.e South Ossetia represents about 2% of the official population of Georgia while Abkhazia is around 4 %. Yet each of these populations feels that they desrve an independent sovereign state on the grounds that they are different than the rest of the Georgians. Isn't this what many in Lebanon were afraid might happen? HA and its followers have never believed in or respected Lebanese sovereignty or identity but think of themselves as part of an Umma and thus were anxious to serve the interests of Iran and Syria as long as that was accomplished at the expense of the Lebanese central government. Make no mistake about it, HA and its allies have not split from Lebanon because they were able in an indirect way to gain control of the whole country but I feel certain that they would proceed in building their own separate enclave if the other Lebanese were to show smoe spine and oppose the HA project of weakening and dissolving whatever is left of Lebanon. Syria has played and will continue to play the role that Russia is playing in Georgia but this observer does not blame the Syrians for pursuing their interests but lays most of the blame on the so called Lebanese citizens who have never shown any meaningful allegiance to a sovereign Lebanese state.<BR/>The Lebanese "opposition" have not had to go as far as the South Osstians not because they do not want to but because they found out that they can have the whole thing. As you can see that is tantamount to having Souyh Ossetia swallow the whole of Georgia. (Even the Lebanese president acts as a Syrian and HA mouth piece but that is a different story).Ghassan Karamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15562232018685403280noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32255069.post-76967790615548342332008-08-25T17:07:00.000+03:002008-08-25T17:07:00.000+03:00Syria, in an awkward manner is trying to compare i...Syria, in an awkward manner is trying to compare itself to Russia...Whifs of Grandeur!!How idiotic is that? A despot trying to equate the Russian/Georgian issue with that of Syria/Lebanon!<BR/>I am afraid until the Persian Belle (HA) has not been divorced from Lebanon will not have a semi tranquil period of time. I suggest that if the pshyiatrists were to have their annual Mental Health conference in Lebanon we might get a better deal. It would be interesting if the case studies were to be our "leaders"...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com